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Summary of Content: Reads ”A government that cannot, or does not protect the humblest Citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown without delay.”

Full Transcript: Washington D.C., August 22d. 1879, A government that cannot or does not protect the humblest Citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown without delay., Fredk. Douglass.